Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition /

Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gussow, Adam.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Subjects:	African Americans > Southern States > Intellectual life. African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. Blues (Music) in literature. Blues (Music) > Southern States > History. Race relations in literature. Violence in literature. Violence > Southern States > History. Southern States > Intellectual life. Southern States > Race relations.

Table of Contents:

"I'm tore down"
Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition
"Make my getaway"
Southern violence and blues entrepreneurship in W.C. Handy's Father of the blues
Dis(re)memberment blues
Narratives of abjection and redress
"Shoot myself a cop"
Mamie Smith's "Crazy blues" as social text
Guns, knives, and buckets of blood
The predicament of blues culture
"The blade already crying in my flesh"
Zora Neale Hurston's blues narratives.